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  • Community Crunch 161: Winter Wonderland 2018!

    Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch! :Jerbhi:

    Winter Wonderland 2018!

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    Winter Wonderland is almost here! This winter-themed holiday event begins tomorrow at 10am PST for PC, Xbox, and PS4 and will last through until January 7th. All of our maps are supported in both single player and multiplayer. The event will automatically activate on any map, even on your modded map servers.

    Raptor Claus will be sailing across the night sky in his sleigh, air-dropping presents filled with high-end loot as well as Mistletoe, and Coal for those naughty Survivors. 

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    Raptor Claus won't be alone this year. He is joined by Gacha Claus who will be roaming all maps in a dashing Santa Hat and sporting holiday-themed colours to help out the very busy Raptor Claus. He will be accepting your coal and in exchange will gift you holiday themed items, or you can trade in your mistletoe for weapons and armor!

    Gacha Claus will also have a random chance to gift you with a new special dino holiday candy when given mistletoe. This candy appears to have a strangely festive effect on any creature that eats it however. Better give it a try and see what happens. Bon appetit!

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    Survivors can stay warm this season in their festively decorated homes with the holiday lights, decorative Christmas tree, wreaths, stockings, snowmen, and wrapped presents they receive from trading with Gacha Claus. Be sure to spread the holiday cheer wherever you go while it lasts!

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    Be sure to send us all your holiday-themed pictures, videos, and artwork here on survivetheark.com or on Twitter as we'd love to see them!

    In addition to the holiday event, we've included a bevy of fixes that we're launching simultaneously across all three platforms. We're starting to reach into the backlog and fix issues that you've been asking for starting with improvements to commanding flyers and better AI for the Manticore.

    Patch Notes:

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    Winter Wonderland!

    • Raptor Claus
      • Flies over any map between 0am and 2am in-game (with event enabled)
      • Drops Holiday Gifts     
    • Gacha Claus
      • Spawns where you'd find Parasaurs on all maps
      • Has holiday colors and wears a Santa Hat
      • Cannot be tamed
      • Doesn't like being near other wild dinos
      • Accepts Coal
        • Gives Holiday Items in return
        • Drops Dino Candy
          • Feed this to a tamed dino for a strange effect    
      • Accepts Mistletoe
        • Gives Items in return       
    • Colorization
      • 20% of wild dinos will spawn with Holiday colors
    • Uses the ActiveEvent system
      • ActiveEvent=WinterWonderland
      • Cleans up after ActiveEvent is reset
      • Auto applies to all non-TC sessions from 12/18-1/7 (UTC)
      • Run with ActiveEvent=None to disable

    Extinction

    • Fix for King Titan environmental effects starting again after boss despawned
    • Fix for other bosses interrupting King Titan environmental effects
    • Cave entrance cooldown display bug fix 
    • Increased radius of city meteor shield
    • Improvements to dome shaders
    • Reduced meteor impact damage to 750
    • Improvements to height fog in desert biome

    Titans  

    • Increased Mek sword damage to tamed titans approximately 9x
    • Increased Mek pistol damage to tamed titans approximately 3x
    • Increased turret damage multipliers to tamed Titans
    • Changes to Titan downloading
      • Titan is disabled for 15m after download
      • Titan takes increased damage during this time       
    • Increased Titan download cooldown to 6+ hours
    • Fix typo in vertical Can't Damage message

    Orbital Supply Drop

    • Buffed Legendary Drops in difficulty and quality of loot
    • Can now be claimed by a tribe in PVE
      • Only that tribe can disable shield, eject items, gather loot
    • Fixed bug that eventually only allowed 1 event at a time in a session
    • Improvements to shield behavior on low FPS servers 
    • Improvements to attacker pathing and behavior

     Element Vein

    • Can now be claimed by a tribe in PvE
      • Only that tribe can harvest element
    • Fixed bug that eventually only allowed 1 event at a time in a session
    • Improvements to attacker pathing and behavior

    Desert Titan

    • Increased damage when it strikes itself with lightning
    • Improvements to Desert Titan follow to address flying away
    • Fix for flocks not defending properly
    • Improvements to tail attack accuracy
    • Made tail attack damage consistent
    • Disabled cryoing the flock
    • Fixed encumbered movement when walking on a Desert Titan

    Dropped Items   

    • Improvements to dropped item interpolation on low fps servers (less poking through ground)
    • Prevented dropped items from falling through structures on load
    • Prevented dropped items from ghosting through structures if thrown close to them

    Eggs

    • Improvements to egg interpolation on low fps servers (less poking through ground)
    • Prevented eggs from falling through structures on load
    • Prevented eggs from ghosting through structures if thrown close to them
    • Fix for invisible Rock Drake and Wyvern eggs

    Velonasaur  

    • Increased accuracy of AOE attack
    • Reduced AOE damage to compensate for increased accuracy
    • Wild Velonasaurs will no longer shoot for too long
    • Fix for Wild Velonasaurs not doing damage in PvE
    • Improvements to desyncs between spines and damage
    • Reduced hovering when walking
    • AOE attack will no longer loot victims

     Managarmr

    • Fixed anim bug related to Ice Breath
    • Fixes for several orientation desyncs
    • Fixes for desyncs when moving on low fps server
    • Minor buff to landing damage
    • Improvements to ice breath targeting
    • Added message when you are unable to dive
    • Slowed down baby Managarmrs

     Enforcer

    • Fixed instances where Enforcer could teleport to a non-existant wall
    • Fixed instances where it could jump back to its last jump position 

    Scout

    • Improved Scout tagging accuracy
    • Improvements to player inspection mechanic
    • Scout will now show floating damage text when damaged

    Item Balloon    

    • Fixed instances of it not going to the correct destination
    • Fix for cases where balloons didn't explode after landing
    • Improvements to weight calculation

    Gacha

    • Fix for unclamped loot quality 
    • Fix for incorrect UI when taming is interrupted

    Ice Titan

    • Fix for broken dino animations related to Ice Breath
    • Increased collision radius for shoulder Corruption

    Flyers  

    • Improved flyer following when in water
    • Added Whistle Land Flyer command
      • Commands a flyer to land nearby

    Crash

    • Fix low frequency crash

    Manticore

    • Improvements to landing logic

    Performance

    • Improvements to server performance

    Map Markers

    • Add support for decimal values

    Snow Owl

    • Slowed down baby food consumption rate

    Daedon

    • Disable healing when frozen

    Xbox

    • Improvements to dino quality
    • Improvements to environment quality

    Modding Community Updates!

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    A reminder for mod authors that the sponsored mod program will be opening up applications again on January 1st. If you would like to apply for sponsorship you will have five weeks after the application period starts, so make sure that your submissions are ready!

    In the meantime, I have received a couple questions about the sponsorship applications that I would also like to address. While this is is not all encompassing of the process of selection, in regards to the application process itself I hope that this helps you ready your submissions with more confidence.

    One thing that has been a common request is for feedback on why a given project isn't selected. While I would like to be able to give feedback on projects, it is extremely time consuming to prepare these, especially with the volume of applications I receive. I want everyone to understand though that not having your project selected does not necessarily mean that there is something wrong with it, there are simply limited slots available with each application period. So don't let it discourage you from applying in the future.

    The other question I have received rather frequently is for what kind of information you should include in your applications and design documents. How you choose to organize your design documents is up to you, but here is a very general explanation of what I am looking for. First is that you have a plan for the duration of sponsorship; the more detailed this plan, the better. After looking at the design documents and learning about what you do with your project, I then look at the mods as they currently are available on the workshop and try to determine whether or not the content available shows a good probability of being able to deliver on that plan. I might also look at other projects in your workshop to help determine that information.

    I look forward to seeing what everyone puts forward in January. Happy modding!

    Fanart of the Week!

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    The Pegomastax who stole Christmas by Erthera!

    Evolution Event!

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    Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 21st of December at 1 PM EST until Wednesday the 26th of December at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    2x Harvesting Rates
    2x Taming Rates
    2x EXP Rates

    That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share you can find us at:

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    Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110
    Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark

    All the best,
    Studio Wildcard

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    Zorb

    I have a single player world on Ragnarok, Nothing happens at 00:00 to 02:00. I don't get a message saying raptor claws has arrived, Is there a way to fix this or do i have to make a new save? PS4 btw

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    Zorb
    9 hours ago, Vincenta1367 said:

    Why dont have the event on solo party? Ps4. Thanks guys

    I have the exact same problem, Maybe it works on new saves? 

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    DauntingBeef08
    4 hours ago, Turbosport said:

    How do we spawn in the dodorex I wanna kill it so the I can get the achievement 

    Dodorex isnt in this update scroll up slightly

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    Vincenta1367
    35 minutes ago, Zorb said:

    I have the exact same problem, Maybe it works on new saves? 

    Yep its a bug they work on it maybe tomorrow look ark on Twitter 

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    Anubisrises101

    FIX YOUR CRAP WILD CARD!! EVER since this update we have been getting black screened every 5 minutes. The game is borderline unplayable!!!! Xbox 1 extinction cross ark 8

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    Turbosport
    8 hours ago, GP said:

    it was decided against a long time ago that it wouldn't actually happen.

    So how are we gonna get the achievement then.

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    WKTAJESS

    I'm concerned that the new claim system for OSD and EV will be a bit of an issue on PvE if you have trolls on the server who start a good EV like 50k Vein or a Purple or yellow supply drop and runs off basically would mean that we will lose out on that.

    Also are allies included or will it be just for one tribe alone? 

    Having allies help with the drops helps for the tougher ones, not everyone is part of a mega tribe.

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    GP
    47 minutes ago, Turbosport said:

    So how are we gonna get the achievement then.

    You won't I don't think.

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    Z0mbie

    [BUG] - Mistletoe and Coal disappear with server restart. It's happened every day on server backup and just happened with the latest server crash. Private server.

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    donotdistherb

    Hi what are the controls mapping on ps4 for Whistle Land Flyer command

    thks

    @Jen please let us know or confirm that this is actually not included in the patch.

    No one knows how to do it, even google doesnt know!!! :)

    also the fix for tek saddles is not working

    thanks

    Edited by donotdistherb

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    TemperanceXIV
    7 hours ago, BlondieOddball said:

    I thank you for your kindness! They are indeed the Holiday ones. I've tried feeding them around 20ish coal, and it gave me nothing! I added 9 mistletoe and all I got was one sniper rifle. It's all so very depressing and aggravating. I don't care about the weapons or armor, all I want are Holiday decorations. I wish WC made it more clear what you have to do. They honestly should've made holiday decor craftable for God's sake. I don't know what to give the Gachas in order to get what items.

    I play on a legacy Center map on PS4. It's just mind boggling, they forgot to put Raptor Claus in the game for PS4 players, and now this. They really need to get their poop together.

    It’s possible the coal just isn’t working, I have however gotten items other than weapons and armor from mistletoe i believe. I’ll check when I get home, my host stats got reset anyway so I’ll summon a Gacha Claus and a crap ton of mistletoes and mark down all the drops :)

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    Darrell

    Ever since this update I have been getting kicked back to main menu. I only play single player and for some reason I'll will be flying and then the screen goes black and just kicks me out. Does anyone have that problem? I know a lot of you probably play online but I just do not have the best internet to be playing and with my job I'm always moving and on the go. 

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    malgannis118

    "winter" wonderland and where is the winter? second year the event is a fake winter wonderland seriously the winter makes it a little more harder to start fresh and enjoy its difficulty, last time the excuse was u didnt had much time for the expansion and now what it is?

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    A1991RENAGADE

    And yet argentavis is still crashing people on primitive plus whenever they attack something, drops STILL not spawning, cant learn canteen engram and WHERE is the inclined metal pipe? Well???   xbox 

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    TemperanceXIV
    13 hours ago, BlondieOddball said:

    I thank you for your kindness! They are indeed the Holiday ones. I've tried feeding them around 20ish coal, and it gave me nothing! I added 9 mistletoe and all I got was one sniper rifle. It's all so very depressing and aggravating. I don't care about the weapons or armor, all I want are Holiday decorations. I wish WC made it more clear what you have to do. They honestly should've made holiday decor craftable for God's sake. I don't know what to give the Gachas in order to get what items.

    I play on a legacy Center map on PS4. It's just mind boggling, they forgot to put Raptor Claus in the game for PS4 players, and now this. They really need to get their poop together.

    Okay did a quick test and got 22 mistletoe crystals, the Gacha at two separate points ate the mistletoes and didn’t drop anything then refused to eat more so I had to give him a little coal to make him eat it again. With the 22 mistletoe crystals I got the following.

    Eight Gacha crystals, four Primitive Gacha crystals, four Ramshackle Gacha crystals, and Six Apprentice Gacha crystals. 

    The Apprentice crystals gave me Stone Hatchet, Chitin Chestpiece, Metal Hatchet, Fabricated Pistol, Riot Leggings, and Flak Chestpiece. 

    Ramshackle gave me Metal Sickle, Shotgun, Chitin Gauntlets, and Chitin Helmet.

    Primitive was a Bow, Miners Helmet, and a Primitive Festival Candy. 

    The regular Gacha crystals had Birthdaysuit Shirt Skin, Birthdaysuit Pants Skin, Fireworks Flaregun Skin, Party Hat Skin, Top Hat Skin, Holiday Stocking, Holiday Lights, Two Gift Boxes, and Two Snowmen. 

    The two coal crystals also gave me a bow and a couple holiday items so at least for Xbox they both can have both. I also know that there’s Mastercraft Festival Candy and Ascendant Festival Candy, and that the Gacha will eat up to Ten coal or mistletoe which is supposed to effect the quality of the crystals. All of mine were from ten at a time.

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    Vincenta1367

    The event Alway bug on ps4, the last patch do nothing more, just the music but no raptor, no gacha

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    Eviga

    So awesome that its not coming to the Nintendo Switch. Support = 0

    Thx for nothing.

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    Marcopollo

    Seriously WC? PC and XBOX get a 3x event for winter wonderland but PS4 gets 2x, and started later at that? Yea ok makes sense.

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    Taymak23

    Can people pick up these Chriatmas gachas and store them? They were everywhere on the server I play on until today. Now I can't find even one.

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    TerronScibe
    13 minutes ago, LadyMatriarch said:

    Sorry if it’s been asked, but.. do Primitive plus servers get to enjoy the holidays too?

    No,  atleast not PS4. I tried Singleplayer mode and the Official Servers. No Winter Wonderland on Primitive+ PS4.

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    LadyMatriarch
    19 minutes ago, TerronScibe said:

    No,  atleast not PS4. I tried Singleplayer mode and the Official Servers. No Winter Wonderland on Primitive+ PS4.

    Well that’s a disappointment. :/ Why don’t we matter, WildCard?

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